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Guidance for identifying and designating peatlands, wet grasslands, mangroves and coral reefs as Wetlands of International Importance

… water, natural resource provision to local communities and indigenous people, landscape stabilization, flood mitigation, …
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Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy

… to recognize existing rights of the poor (including indigenous peoples) or grant new rights through legislative change. …
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Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… faced difficulties in exercising this right include indigenous peoples, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced … persons with disabilities, elderly persons, migrants, indigenous peoples, internally displaced persons and migrant …
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Intellectual property rights in plant varieties: International legal regimes and policy options for national governments

… utilization of genetic resources and the preservation of indigenous knowledge. (art. 1) The CBD also recognizes that … Such conservation occurs, for example, where farmers and indigenous communities safeguard traditional plant varieties … breeders. According to this view, in situ conservation by indigenous farmers diminished as they began to rely on …
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Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas: The MPA Plan of Action for IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas

… – declared and run by local communities and traditional peoples Indigenous bio-cultural areas and territories – de- clared and run by indig- enous peoples Top: Fisherman capturing an octopus. Bottom: …
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A guide to the complementarities between the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity

… and monitor biodiversity (art. 7) x x x x x x x x 5.3 Indigenous and local communities 5.3.1 Respect, preserve and … innovations and practices (art. 8(j)) 5.3.2 Exchange indigenous and local knowledge (art. 17(2)) 5.3.3 Protect and …
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Strategic Report: Environment, Peace and Security - a Convergence of Threats

… led to the expulsion of local populations, as the case of indigenous communities illustrates: in order to exploit an … their lands. Such processes jeopardize the existence of indigenous communities, leading to their displacement and … by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising …
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… Areas. No. 3. Graeme Kelleher, 1999, xxiv + 107pp. Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas: Principles, Guidelines and Case … 2003, ix + 79pp. Also available in Chinese and Japanese. Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas: Towards …
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An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… countries which may have very different ecosystems and indigenous or- ganisms. Although these LMOs may have been … that might not be regarded as scien- tific – for example, indigenous and traditional knowledge and information, as well … consumer or develop- ment organizations, indigenous peoples’ groups, academic or research institutions, in- …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

An explanatory guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… countries which may have very different ecosystems and indigenous or- ganisms. Although these LMOs may have been … that might not be regarded as scien- tific – for example, indigenous and traditional knowledge and information, as well … consumer or develop- ment organizations, indigenous peoples’ groups, academic or research institutions, in- …
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